<p>The essay asks-“How will you, with your life experiences, contribute to the vitality of Bates?”</p>
<p>I having been trying and trying to figure this essay out for a week now and am just drawing blanks. Can someone please give me some tips on what to write?</p>
<p>i’m stuck too…</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>it helps me to just sit in a favorite spot with a writing pad and a fresh pen with the topic at the top… you’ll be surprised to find inspiration strikes when you’re relaxed:D im applying to bates too!</p>
<p>try weaving in this line:
Based on my experiences in life, I think I would be able to master bates.</p>
<p>Haha I hate to revive an old thread BUT BuddyMcAwesome, that line was freakin’ hilarious! Pretty genius, I must say.</p>
<p>Bates is a small college. D is a freshmen there. What about your ECs. Is there something there that you could do in college? What about where you have volunteered - would you try to continue that in the Lewiston area? Let yourself come through on the esssay.</p>
<p>nice joke, haha
has anyone there ever thought of designing a tshirt with that ‘master bates’??
haha, if i get in bates this time, next year i’ll propose to make that shirt…</p>
<p>hey guys,
are you all applying to the class of 2014 to Bates in ed?
how many of you are asking for the fin aid?
are you all from the us itself?</p>
<p>I’m from Singapore, applying RD, asking for Fin Aid.</p>
<p>i think most bates students would have to agree with me here…the joke gets old…</p>
<p>hey srrinath, which JC are you from?
i’m from SIngapore too
im applying ED, asking for aid too</p>
<p>I’m applying RD. Still havent written a good though. I’m stuck at the same place I was when I started this thread. damn.</p>
<p>i’m done with it, alr submitted my application… 
now waiting for luck to come</p>
<p>Mmm for the class of '12, we had “why do you want to come here?” Pretty generic college essay but you need to make a new one for every single school. Good luck guys!!! :D</p>
<p>How long is everybody’s supplement essay?</p>
<p>I was just looking at the supplement, it’s probably bad that I haven’t written it yet.
But it says respond in two or three paragraphs.
That seems kind of short to me? I might make it a little longer than that.</p>
<p>i, too, am stuck on the essay question. contribute to the vitality of bates? from what i’ve read about the student body, i would fit in well (white, upper middle class, private high school, interested in being an English major). How do i set myself apart in my essay?</p>
<p>they don’t really care how you are going to fit in, they want to know what you will bring. Write about something unique that you do that not many others do.</p>